FreeBSD 6.0, ThinkPad 600, dc0: watchdog timeout - ACPI?

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 10 June 2006 06:26, Fred Koschara wrote:
> Hello John --
> 
> I captured the dmesg output for
>          ACPI, no boot fix
>          no ACPI, no boot fix
>          ACPI, boot fixed
>          no ACPI, boot fixed
> 
> The files are at http://fkeinternet.com/support/ where you will find a link 
> to 20060607.London.FKEinternet.com.ThinkPad600.dmesg.files.tar.gz which 
> contains the debugging information.  In each case, I also included the 
> corresponding loader.conf file, similarly named so it will be obvious which 
> one is which.
> 
> FYI, my immediate problem was relieved by information I received from Björn 
> König on the freebsd-questions mail list.  He wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I had a Thinkpad 600 and a lot of problems too, especially with networking 
> >and the cardbus. It received the impression that the chipset of the 600 is 
> >totally broken. The revisited successor 600E doesn't make so much trouble 
> >at all.
> >
> >Add the following lines to /boot/loader.conf, restart and see what 
> >happens. These lines solved some of my problems regarding unreliable 
> >networking.
> >
> >    hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000
> >    hw.pci.link.LNKA.irq=11
> >    hw.pci.link.LNKB.irq=11
> >    hw.pci.link.LNKC.irq=11
> >    hw.pci.link.LNKD.irq=11

If these lines fixed things for you then that's the best info I could offer 
you, so I would just stay with those.

-- 
John Baldwin